My primary school get together + shisha

Had a small get together with my primary school friends. We haven been seeing each other for 14 years and I really appreciate friendster to provide the robust service for people to reunion with old friends. Last time, we had no pager or handphone so it was really hard to remain in contact with them.

Then after meet up they say want to eat near Sabai. I thought they were saying the coffee shop just beside sabai which sells over priced fried rice. Like $5 for a plate of fried rice, in the end, I found out they want to eat at "DA CHANG JIN". Although I am a spendthrift on entertainment, but I tend to be a bit more conservative on food. I don't go to high grade restaurant to eat. Never. Some more they requested to go the VIP room, crazy can. Good thing is no additional charges.

Flipping the menu on the first page and my throat already drying up. So pricey the food. The first item cost $120. I looked for signal from my friend, I wish that they find it expensive and want to change location, but apparent they were already discussing on what things to eat already. So basically I browse through for the cheapest item $25 is the cheapest. Being a man, you have to put up a show. So I politely asked them to choose while I can eat anything. Meanwhile I already visualizing the worst scenario to get mentally prepared.

We waited patiently for our food, while filling up each other up with our own stories. 14 years are very long and a lot of thing can happen. Soon it started to get boring when they starts to talk about marriage and love and boyfriend. How boring it can be.

Korean food they always serves a lot of appetizer. The "cold plate" got 8 different dishes including the famous kimchi. Personally I don't like korean food.

This plate is nice. I think its 'dong fen'.

They ordered seafood BBQ. Nothing very special about it. If I go sakura, I can easily arrange something nicer with the wide range of food offered in sakura

I cannot understand how the thing work. They waitress came to us with our food and asked if we want to BBQ our food on our own or should she do it for us. I quite confused when they offer the option to BBQ food in front of us. If at the first place we want them to BBQ for us, then we were jolly well asked them to cook the food for us in the kitchen. It just doesn't make sense to me. Soon I found out the reason behind.

Korean BBQ don't use oil and you will get the fish burnt and sticking on the hot plate. If you cook the salmon, then you will get minced salmon as a end product. We BBQ until tulan so we asked the lady to do it for us. Btw, the lady isn't korean, she isn't a Japanese either. See you guessed it correctly. She is from China. No discrimination or whatever, but I felt that China had invaded our society. I see China people anywhere.

Personally, I don't think this restaurant is value of money. Food were just average. Money not very well spent.

After that go Sabai and I am wasted by the end of the night.

Sabai Live band

The day before go sight seeing with Liping, basically can say around Singapore. We went a lot of place including but not limited to Expo, Changi Newater Visitor Center, Thai restaurant, Golden Mile, Arab Street and suntec. This week really burnt hole in my pocket.

NEWater visitor center at Tanah Merah, there are shuttle bus to send you there, but we walked in because we missed the bus timing. Process like Ultrafiltration, Reverse Osmosis and UV disinfection. I can remember so vivdly because I worked in the fucking NEWater plant. Some more is the pre commissioning period, every valve, every bolt and nut I also know.

We had lunch at Thai restaurant. The minced chicken in Thai source is delicious. Other all so so only.

Then go to Arab street to see see. There were a lot of graffiti on the wall. You get to see a lot of people with camera hoping to capture some nostalgia photo. I took some but lazy to upload.

Shisha smoking and drink Turisk drink. Once in a life time experience. Because I will not try that again. Smoking is bad for your health, some more shisha smoke liao no kick one. But the instrument used were kind of.... Resemble another instrument I used before....